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I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.
— Mary Ellen Mark
I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.
— Mary Ellen Mark
I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.
— Mary Ellen Mark
Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.
— Mary Ellen Mark
Reality is always extraordinary.
— Mary Ellen Mark
I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.
— Mary Ellen Mark
I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.
— Mary Ellen Mark
I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.
— Mary Ellen Mark
A lot of people who don't have anything collect dogs; it's kind of a symbol of having something.
— Mary Ellen Mark
I love to photograph people in their own environment. It offers clues to what's important in their lives.
— Mary Ellen Mark
Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.
— Mary Ellen Mark
A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.
— Mary Ellen Mark
Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.
— Mary Ellen Mark
It's not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.
— Mary Ellen Mark
Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.
— Mary Ellen Mark
I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.
— Mary Ellen Mark
Finding the right subject is the hardest part.
— Mary Ellen Mark
I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.
— Mary Ellen Mark
You don't need to retouch if you know how to light.
— Mary Ellen Mark
The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen.
— Mary Ellen Mark
What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.
— Mary Ellen Mark
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
— Mary Ellen Mark
One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.
— Mary Ellen Mark
I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.
— Mary Ellen Mark
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
— Mary Ellen Mark
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.
— Mary Ellen Mark
If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless.
— Mary Ellen Mark
In a portrait, you always leave part of yourself behind.
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